INSPIRATIONAL BUSINESS QUOTES

Sometimes we need to find some inspiration from the words of other successful people in history.  We hope you can find a few from this list that inspire you!

We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace. – Jim Rohn

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. -Tony Robbins

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. – Nolan Bushnell

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. – Norman Schwarzkopf

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. – Jim Rohn

The golden rule for every business man is this: “Put yourself in your customer’s place.” – Orison Swett Marden

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity! But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them! – C.J. Walker

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it. – Debbi Fields

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do. – Dennis Waitley

Business opportunities are like buses: there’s always another one coming. – Richard Branson

Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching. – George Van Valkenburg

There is no royal, flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it. For if I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard. – C.J. Walker

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. – Bill Gates

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. – Coco Chanel

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. – Henry Ford

The cynic says, “One man can’t do anything”. I say, “Only one man can do anything.” – John W. Gardner

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity. – Oprah Winfrey

If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. – Ingvar Kamprad

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. – Jim Rohn

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations. – Steve Jobs

You’ve got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough, I can have it. It’s called perseverance. – Lee Iacocca

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. – Laurence Sterne

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. – David Rockefeller

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight Eisenhower

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm. – Thomas J. Watson

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games. – Babe Ruth

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. – Carlos Castaneda

To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted. – George Kneller

To the degree we’re not living our dreams; our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves. – Peter McWilliams

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. – Richard Branson

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. – Peter F. Drucker

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you. – Henry J. Kaiser

Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. – Vince Lombardi

In all realms of life, it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential. It’s no different in the financial realm. – Suze Orman

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. – Confucius

The first one gets the oyster; the second gets the shell. – Andrew Carnegie

Hire character. Train skill. – Peter Schutz

If you aren’t willing to risk the usual, you’ll will have to settle for the ordinary. – Jim Rohn

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. – Bill Gates

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. – Napoleon Hill

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. – Charles Darwin

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity. – Charles Dickens

People are definitely a company’s greatest asset. It doesn’t make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps. – Mary Kay Ash

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. – Harold Geneen

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. – Thomas Watson, Sr.

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers. – John Egan

There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don’t like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don’t spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities. – Michael Dell

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well. – Alan Greenspan

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi

Let’s be honest. There’s not a business anywhere that is without problems. Business is complicated and imperfect.

Every business everywhere is staffed with imperfect human beings and exists by providing a product or service to other imperfect human beings. – Bob Parsons

You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins. – Jim Stovall

The only way around is through. – Robert Frost

You only have to do very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong. – Warren Buffett

The noblest search is the search for excellence – Lyndon B. Johnson

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is likely to neither make money nor find much fun in life. – Charles M. Schwab

You must remain focused on your journey to greatness. – Les Brown

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. – Theodore Roosevelt

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier. – Charles F. Kettering

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right! – Henry Ford

You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills. – Jim Rohn

The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many. – John Naisbitt

There’s always an opportunity to make a difference. – Michael Dell

If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours. – Ray Kroc

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating. – Denis Waitley

The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong question. – Peter Drucker

To win without risk is to triumph without glory. – Pierre Corneille